It was 49 races ago that current points leader last visited victory lane, that was in Kansas in 2010. After Saturday night though, Greg Biffle can call himself a winner again.

Biffle had started off the season with three third place finishes to grab the points lead, but he hadn’t claimed victory yet. The next three races, Biffle slipped a little, but he never finished outside the top-15.

“I knew it was a matter of time until I was going to win one of these,” Biffle said to media members after the race.

Coming to Texas though, Biffle was pegged to be one of the best drivers that could win this weekend. Biffle finished second both practice sessions this weekend, and hestarted third in the race.

Despite leading the race early on, it wasn’t until 30 laps to go that Biffle was able to get by Jimmie Johnson for the lead. From then on all Biffle had to battle were the strong winds that had hampered the race all night long.

Neither the wind or Johnson would stop Biffle from getting the win.

“I was foaming at the mouth [going for the win after 49 winless races],” Biffle said. “I was doing all I could. I saw a little something with 40 to go.”

Biffle took the lead away from Johnson who dominated much of the middle part of the race. Johnson tried to get back to Biffle, but eventually hit the wall and would have to settle for second.

“Before I knew it, Biffle was there and passed me,” Johnson said after the race to Speed reporters. “There was nothing I could do.”

Saturday’s race was unique, not because Biffle took away the lead with 30 laps to go, or that it was windy, but the fact that for 234 laps the race went green.

Before Saturday, the previous record number for least amount of cautions in a Texas race were five cautions. Saturday, there were only two cautions. The first one was for debris on lap 68 and the second was for when Trevor Bayne tagged the wall in turns three and four on lap 95.

For Biffle, it was his second win at Texas, but for his crew chief, Matt Puccia, it was his first win. All season long, Biffle had credited Puccia for his early season success and now he can credit him with his first win.

“We had been trying so hard,” Biffle said to Speed reporters after the win. “It sure was great to be able to win like we did tonight.”

In addition to breaking a record for the least number of cautions, Saturday’s race also set a record for the fastest race in Texas Motor Speedway history. Previously the record was from last November when the average race speed was 152.705 mph. Saturday the speed was bumped up to 160.577 mph.

Rounding out the top five were Mark Martin in third, Jeff Gordon in fourth and Matt Kenseth in fifth.

Martin Truex Jr. held off teammates and former Texas Motor Speedway winners to claim the pole for Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500.

Truex’s lap of 28.366 seconds/190.369 mph bested the rest of the 45 cars that were attempting to qualify for Saturday’s race.

It is his seventh career pole and his second career pole at the mile and half track that is Texas. He previously sat on the pole for the November 2007 Sprint Cup Series race at Texas.

“Means a lot to get pole, for all these guys,” Truex Jr. said after his qualifying lap to Speed Reporters. “We are starting to gel as a team.”

Currently sitting sixth in points, this is the second top-10 start for Truex Jr. in the 2012 season.

“[I'm] having so much fun again driving these cars again,” Truex said of his qualifying lap and season.

Based off the first practice, Truex Jr., was the 35th driver to qualify for Saturday’s race. His lap had to survive former Texas winners of Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle and Michael Waltrip racing teammate, as well as 1998 winner, Mark Martin.

In the end only Kenseth and Biffle came close to knocking Truex off the pole. They qualified second and third respectively.

This is the first time since April 2010 that a car manufacturer, other than a Ford, has sat on the pole at Texas motor speedway.

Rounding out the top-five for Saturday’s race is Mark Martin in fourth and Kasey Kahne in fifth, he is also the fastest qualifying Chevrolet. Brad Keselowski who qualified eighth was the fastest qualifying Dodge.

Missing the race were Stacy Compton, Joe Nemechek and, for the first time in the 2012 season, David Stremme.

After a week off and a few flared tempers from Martinsville, the NASCAR Sprint Cup series moves to Texas Motor Speedway for its first scheduled night race of the year.

Although the Daytona 500 was run on a Monday night, it was originally scheduled to be a Sunday afternoon race until rains postponed the race.

Under the lights at Texas, there will be high speeds, but the leader of the pack could come from one of two teams.

Matt Kenseth, who won this event last year, led 162 of the 334 laps, the most of any driver that day.

While Kenseth won, his Roush-Fenway Racing teammates all took turns leading at least one lap in the event. David Ragan, who was a Roush-Fenway driver then started on pole is last April’s event.

Flash forward to November when the Sprint Cup once again returned to Texas and the story was much the same.

Instead of a Ford winning though, it was the Chevrolet of Tony Stewart fining victory lane, holding off Carl Edwards is second. Edwards drives for Roush-Fenway racing.

In both races last year, a Roush driver started on pole at Texas, with Ragan taking the April pole while Greg Biffle took the pole in November.

In November, the lowest finishing Roush driver was Ragan in 12th.

So far this season, Kenseth is the only driver that has won for Roush-Fenway Racing, but Biffle leads the points and has been solid most of the year.

For Stewart, he and his Stewart-Haas Racing team are off to its best start in the racing team’s history. Stewart, fresh off his championship run from last year is off to his best start since he joined the NASCAR circuit in 1999. Stewart already has two wins, and his teammate, Ryan Newman is coming off a win two weeks ago at Martinsville.

This Saturday, under the lights of Texas, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see a Roush Ford or a Stewart-Haas Chevrolet in victory lane, because when it comes to Texas those two teams have been the teams to beat.

By the Numbers:

31st—the furthest back a driver has started an April Texas Race to win. (Matt Kenseth 2002)

8—the number of April wins that Ford has at the track to lead all active manufactures.

8th—the average starting position of the April race winner.

3—number of wins that Carl Edwards has at Texas Motor Speedway to lead all active drivers.

1—the number of April races that have been won from the pole at Texas Motor speedway (Kasey Kahne 2006)